Published by Hartford, CT: McBride/Publisher, 1984, 1984
First Edition
Stated First Edition; small 4to., 487 pages; cloth covered boards; a very good clean tight copy with no apparent flaws in a lightly sunned dustjacket.
Published by McBride Publishing, Hartford, 1984
ISBN 10: 0930313003 ISBN 13: 9780930313005
Seller: The Book Collector, Inc. ABAA, ILAB, Fort Worth, TX, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. xxi+487 pages with frontispiece, plates, photographs, facsimiles and indices. Royal octavo (9 1/4" x 6 1/4") bound in original publisher's dark blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine and facsimile signature of Twain to cover in original pictorial jacket. First edition limited to 1500 copies. William McBride's indispensable work, covering the full breadth of Mark Twain's writings after Merle Johnson's first Twain bibliography in 1910 and the entries in Jacob Blanck's Bibliography of American Literature in 1957. Shows cover and title page photographs for most entries in addition to occurring points of entry, further includes summaries of every letter owned by the Mark Twain Memorial And The Stowe-day Foundation. Condition: A near fine copy in a fine jacket.
Published by McBride, Hartford, CT, 1984
Seller: Yesterday's Gallery, ABAA, East Woodstock, CT, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. First Edition. Octavo. Blue cloth over boards with gilt lettering on front cover and spine. Near fine, with near fine dust jacket. The first ever fully illustrated bibliography of Mark Twain, includes both black and white and color illustrations. Includes descriptions of 761 books by Twain, 169 books about him, and 327 items of correspondence. Several detailed indices including Twain's books, other contributors to the text, and sources for photographs and illustrations. Near fine quality, all pages unmarred, except for some light spotting on the foredge, no shelf wear or other damage to spine or cover. Dust jacket is very fine and covered in plastic, with no wear or creasing.
Published by McBride Publisher Hartford, 1984
Seller: Forest Books, ABA-ILAB, Grantham, LINCS, United Kingdom
First Edition
First Edition, frontis., illustrs., throughout (some coloured), orig. cloth, d.w.
A Bibliography of the Collections of the Mark Twain Memorial and the Stowe-Day Foundation Octavo black cloth hardcover, gilt decoration to upper board, and gilt titles to spine One of 1500 trade edition copies, copiously illustrated by photographs of the books and title pages. A fine copy in a fine, unclipped dw.
Published by McBride Publisher, Hartford, CT, 1984
First Edition Signed
Hard Cover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Limited Edition. Deluxe Edition. "Fifty-two copies, lettered A to Z and AA to ZZ, are reserved for the use of the publisher." This is copy W and inscribed in red ink "W for Whittelsey with the deepest appreciation, B M McBride." (see photos) Dark blue full leather with gold lettering and gold facsimile signature of Samuel Clemens, Mark Twain on front cover. 487 pages, profusely illustrated. An indispensable guide. Bright and fine in a bright and fine dust jacket with protective mylar cover. Signed.